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Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion over the next decade, the company and the U.S. military announced on March 31.

The headsets, based on commercially available HoloLens, will make soldiers safer and more effective, according to Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman.

The company recommends for users to switch to Windows 10.

On January 14, exactly ten years after the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft stopped its technical support, according to a message on the company's website.

This month, Microsoft will close its library of eBooks, remove all content purchased by consumers, and pay compensations.

The company will fully refund customers' money and will even add $ 25 compensation to those who have taken notes in eBooks or have written annotations.

Microsoft appears to have abandoned its smartphone operating system ambitions, reported BBC. 

The company's Windows 10 chief has tweeted that developing new features and hardware for the Mobile version of the OS was no longer a "focus".

Joe Belfiore added that he had also switched to Android himself.

Microsoft on July 24 announced the end of days for its pioneering Paint application as it focuses on software for 3-D drawing.

Paint drawing and image processing software that made its debut in 1985 with the Windows operating system was among the applications listed as "removed or deprecated" in a Windows 10 Fall Creators Update set for release later this year.

Some PCs that received a free upgrade to Windows 10 less than two years ago are now officially blocked from receiving future updates.

Microsoft says its' new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released as a free download.

That's a far cry from the company's goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years.

Microsoft on July 13 announced plans for a celebratory debut this month of Windows 10 operating software designed to spread the U.S. software titan's offerings across a broad range of devices.